LaTeX rule them all when it's time to write a thesis. This template is nice. The code is simple so a beginner can start to play with at any moment. Keep working hard I love what you did.
Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
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Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#32Another excellent template... https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#33My university dictates the style of a thesis so no chance there but it looks good.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, blue titles evoke MS Word. As pointed out, a PDF rendered with this style would be great help in understanding it. Perhaps it's a good choice for on-screen reading, but shouldn't you go with serif typefaces when laying out for print?
A long time ago I did some googling (aka `research') on the subject and indeed I found out that using serif for printed documents is non negotiable ; it's supposed (and I agree with that) to let the eyes decrypt words faster and smoother than when reading sans serif. Oddly enough sans serif is easier to decipher on screens. I don't know yet which kind of fonts I should use on my e-reader though. The web seems to thin…
Those studies focused on geometric sans serif fonts like Helvetica. Humanist sans fonts have been demonstrated to have higher legibility in print.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#35Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#36Isn't the LaTeX stylesheet for your thesis usually dictated by your university? It was for me at least..
It's usually passed down from student to student through departments. Which reminds me: I never put my own patches to the Technion thesis template on a public platform. I need to do that!
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#37If the creator is reading this: Your web pages would be immediately improved 100% by adding a link to a PDF file generated using this style, showing most of what goes into a typical thesis. (You could use your own thesis for which it was developed, or just a pile of lorem ipsum.) I see that you have links to JPEGs of sample pages, but this would be much better. [EDITED to add: I am not suggesting that you remove the…
And a must-have is an example with:
- pictures
- tables
- formulas
When you can't find it in the sample PDF, you assume that adding them will be some sort of visual hell...
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1. The blue titles, the unnecessary lines and the fact that he branded it with the whole Clean Thesis thing doesn't really sound clean in my book. I'm currently looking for a thesis template as well, but the more I come across (1) the more I just want to do something like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ . (1) http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/326/latex-templates-f...
This link got me started in TeX (I was just barely aware of its existence before). http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex Not a thesis template at all, but great ideas and it sheds some light on how to get decent typography. On a side note, I think it would be great to have a good WYSIWYG TeX editor for office/basic user level of proficiency. Typesetting does matter, it profoundly impacts reading, which is particularly…
Check out Lyx
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#39Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.
You can look into softcover/polytexnic here: https://github.com/softcover/softcover , I believe it had a decent .tex style for a book. Also very powerful pipeline for producing .epub/.mobi from .tex
Another excellent style sheet to look into is the Tufre-style book: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/tufte-style-book
I'd also be happy to share some of the .tex header I use for my book---just some customizations on the vanilla book documentclass. It's fairly hacky stuff, but it works ;)
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#40Isn't the LaTeX stylesheet for your thesis usually dictated by your university? It was for me at least..
In my case, I only had to use a predetermined stylesheet for the title page. I've heard of one university (there must be others) where there's a thick compendium that specifies exactly which font to use where on each page, what spacings and margins to use, how to format the table of contents, etc. Not actually a LaTeX stylesheet you can use, but a list of rules that you manually have to make sure your thesis conforms…
20+ years ago, my university's formatting rules were pre-computer-age, and the asked a guy in the IT department (a friend of mine) to create e a new set of rules. The new rules were entirely based on MS Word.